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middle class. King Louis XVI had created an environment in France that was amenable to
a great expansion of the middle class, and those behind the Revolution sought to prevent
this from occurring.

Like the American Revolution, Freemasonry played a leading role in the Revolution in
France. Epperson writes:

Freemasonry had come to France in 1725, but by 1772 the organization had split into two
groups, one of which was known as Grand Orient Lodge of Freemasonry. The first Grand
Master, the equivalent of president of the Lodge, was the Duc d’ Orleans, also a member
of the Illuminati.

The Grand Orient Lodge spread quickly throughout the entirety of France so that by 1789
(the year of the French Revolution) there were 600 lodges all over France compared to
only 104 in 1772. Members of the Grand Orient Lodge were also active in government, as
447 of the 605 members of the Estates General, France’s parliament, were members.

History books declare that the Bastille was a prison of torture used by King Louis XVI, and
that it held hundreds of political prisoners. The story contends that a valiant uprising of
oppressed citizens who had loved ones being held inside stormed the Bastille to set them
free. This fable is on the par with that which suggests Colonialists dressed as Indians
spontaneously came together to dump tea into Boston Harbor. Ralph Epperson cites Nesta
Webster when he writes:

The plan of attack was to storm the Bastille, not to release hundreds of “oppressed
political prisoners” supposedly imprisoned there, but to capture the needed weapons to
start the revolution. This was confirmed by the fact that, when the mob reached the
Bastille, so-called “torturous” prison of the “oppressive” King Louis XVI, there were only
seven prisoners incarcerated there: four forgers, two lunatics, and the Comte de Solages,
incarcerated for “monstrous crimes against humanity” at the request of his family. “The
damp, dark dungeons had fallen into complete disuse; since the ministry of Necker in 1776
no one had been imprisoned there.

Storming of the Bastille